New Zealand plants and their story . Fig. 51.—General view of a i)oitioii of low tussock-grassland on Mount Sugarloaf, Cass(Canterbury), on left and in background; in centre and on right erect and pro-strate bushes of the mountain-totara {Podocarims nii-alis). Trans. Inst.] [Photo, C. E. Foiveraker,. •-^i Fi( —Tall Uu.^(Hk--ra-slari<l l tlir rril-t us,-, irl^ (J lanllnui la liamiidi var. nihra)growing in the montane belt of tlie Malvern Hills (Canterbury). [Photo, L. Cockayne. MANUKA THICKET. 73 race which reproduces its like. On the contrary, it presents adiversity of forms which are
New Zealand plants and their story . Fig. 51.—General view of a i)oitioii of low tussock-grassland on Mount Sugarloaf, Cass(Canterbury), on left and in background; in centre and on right erect and pro-strate bushes of the mountain-totara {Podocarims nii-alis). Trans. Inst.] [Photo, C. E. Foiveraker,. •-^i Fi( —Tall Uu.^(Hk--ra-slari<l l tlir rril-t us,-, irl^ (J lanllnui la liamiidi var. nihra)growing in the montane belt of tlie Malvern Hills (Canterbury). [Photo, L. Cockayne. MANUKA THICKET. 73 race which reproduces its like. On the contrary, it presents adiversity of forms which are seemingly impossible to classify. Some,it is true, are distinct races, but most are probably unfixed hybridsbetween races not yet defined by the plant-classifier. There are alsooccasionally individuals with beautiful double flowers (fig. 43), andothers with crimson blossoms, of which the form known in gardensas Leptospermum Nichollsii (in general incorrectly spelt Nichollii )is one of the most handsome shrubs in cultivation. Wherever the soil is extremely poor, as on dry gravel plains, orparticularly sour, as that sterile clay, wet in winter and bakedhard in summer, which forms the Auckland gumlands, a more orless dense association of manuka occurs. At the present time it isimpossible
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